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DRIVES AN 8@-CCLUMN PRINTER BUT
WHICH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING

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PATCHES: =
{. OPTION FOR FAT LETTERS, =
2. OPTIONS FOR PAPER COLOR, =
3. RETURN TO CURRENT MSCRIPT, a
4. COLD START FOR MSCRIPT,

PROGRAM UTILITY ROUTINE,
A "STOP" (TO BASIC), AND
ALLOW FOR BACKUP COPIES.

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IN ADDITION, HE HAS REASSIGNED THE

KEYS FOR A MUCH BETTER CONTROL OF a BES od LET fr =RND¢?: PAPER &
SBORDOR

THE CURSOR AND FOR EASTER USE OF ig OUER 1

THE DELETION FUNCTION.

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VU—CALC For the AERCO CEeEntTrRONIcs

PRINTER I/F and 80 COLUMN PRINTERS

by Fat Morrissey

(c) 1985 C.P. Morrissey. All rights reserved. Do not copy or reprint in whole or part without express written permission

of the author. Commercial use strictly prohibited.

As promised, here are the program lines to aake the Psion
software Program YU-CALC work with your AERCO Centronics
Interface and "80 Coluan" Printer to give you full page
width presentation for your data.

Required hardware and software are:

1, T/§ 2068 Computer

2. AERCO Centronics Printer I/F

3. 80 Coluan Printer

4, Tape Recorder

J. YU-CALC

6. AERCO printer driver software -
Version 2.1 - (See Note a) below.)

Below are the Basic program lines which are to be MERGEd
with the Basic portion of VU-CALC. Before proceeding, 1
Suggest you read the article for the Tasaan.

wer (V2.0 7) which load to Address 642564

That’s it! Now, reset the computer and use LOAD®* to test
the program for proper operation.

NOTES:

a)? According to AERCO, Version 2.1 of their Printer Driver
Prograa is the current version and the one in the
widest distribution. However, there are older versions

(200 lower than
/V2.1). If you have one of these older versions, try
ireducing all POKE addresses in the lines below by 200,
with the exception of LINE 41, where the POKEs should

, be: 26703,5: 26704,251 : 64240, 10,

‘0 Like the Tas@an version of VU- CALC, the AERCO version

Also, it |

mignt be a good idea to have your documentation for the '

RERCO driver available for reference, if needed,
Sage procedure 435
simmarized here) with the exceptions as noted:

. Reset computer. Key in the lines listed herein.

. SAVE and VERIFY them on any blank cassette,

. Reset computer. MERGE the Basic part of VU-CALC to
prevent the program from AUTO-STARTing.

. LIST the VU-CALC Basic. MERGE in the previously SAVEd
lines trom 1 & 2 above.

. LIST the result. Then SAVE
tape and VERIFY.
tape,

6. Reset computer. Place the commercial VU-CALC tape in
the recorder and use the immediate command LOAD "" CODE
40000, S97 2:LOAD "* CODE 29328,5225. Play the other two
parts of VU-CALC into the computer. Rewind the
commercial tape and put it away.

7, Now replace the tape with "vcalcP" and get to the end
af the Basic you just recorded. Leaving a few seconds
after the Basic, SAVE "s" CODE 40000,4912. VERIFY. Now
following this on the tape, SAVE "vc" CODE 29328,5225
and VERIFY,

8. Now put your tape containing the AERCO Printer driver
(V 2.1) into the recorder. LOAD "“" CODE 64454,1111.
Rewind this tape and put it away.

9. Put your bea tape_back in and a few seconds past

the end of "

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"vcalcP" LINE 10 on a new
This will be your actual working

verg SAVE "a" CODE 44456,1111 and VERIFY. =

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was written for use with the Star S6-10, but will also
drive gost other printers (including "156 Coluan*

printers like the S6-15 and Epson FX-100) with einor
changes.

The AERCO version requires a few more Basic commands
than the Tasman version. This is why you see sore
extensive use of the memory-saving "VAL" function.
Again, I have not put in the usual REMark lines to
properly document the revisions internally. | present
here the notes which have been omitted from the prograa
to conserve memory:

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40 Sets z=0 and shuts off screen copy via “LPRINT
CHR$ 1".

41 Sets up call to “Printer Driver on LPRINT® and
“Line Feed with Carriage Return".

42 Sets width (34) for title.

43 Sets “Expanding Mode" for printing.

J! Initialize left margin to 0,

33 Commands "One line expanded print", prints a$

(title),

4 Sets print width (136) for table.

60 Commands "Condensed print.*

63 Commands "Set left margin =

69 Checks for ore coluans than will fit sheet.
If you choose a print font other than
"condensed* (17 cpi) you will likely want to
change this-the number 18 to a saaller value.
It is also where you would put in a larger
value for a "136 Coluan" printer.

73-80 and 173-180 print the coluan nuabers at the
top and bottoa of the hard copy.

120-160 The data "fetch"/LPRINT routine.

180 Commands "Pica print® (Stops Condensed).

2000 Disables the "&p" command (same as Tasman.)

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The AERCO MERSE Frogram Lines for “ycalcP*
fc} 1905 £.©. Morrissey. All rights reserved.

1@ CLEAR VAL "29327": BORDER LN PI:
: INK LN PI: CLS : LOAD "* SCREENS :
OAD "" CODE : G2 TO YAL “2e¢"

4@ LET z= VAL "@": POKE VAL "44443",2: POKE VAL "£44
64",z: PORE VAL "64445",

41 PORE VAL "25782", VAL "285": POKE VAL "24784", VA
L "iii": FOKE VAL "$4468", YAL "18"

42 POKE VAL "64459", VAL S33"

4= POKE VAL "44456" 2

cf LPRINT CHR$ VAL "27": CHP¢ VAL "77": CHRE z

va INPUT "Titles “sa$
s. LPRINT CHRS VAL "14%." *"sa$
J4 POKE VAL "44459", VAL "E35"
cf LPRINT CHR$ YAL "15":

Qi LERINT CHAS VAL "ig
so INPUT “Lett Margin (Condensed) "ss

6 L°RINT CHR$ YAL "27": CHRS VAL "77": CHRE s:

SE INPUT "Start Coluan vib IF one VAL "1* “THEN LET n=
VAL *t"

69 INFUT "Finish Column "2m: IF abint VAL "19"-( INT ¢
(s+ VAL "S")! VAL S7"11) THEN LET ment VAL "19"=4 INT 4
(gt VAL 5°)? VAR PY)

7B INPUT "Start Line "sq: IF g¢ YAL "!" THEN LET a= y
ES lis

71 INFUT "Finish Line “sr: IF r>
VAL "5¢°

72 PORE VAL “44454",
Tom= VAL "59"

73 FOR a= VAL "1" TO (mone VAL "1"

72 LPRINT TAR ( VAL "2"+(at VAL "7")- LEN STR€ ‘atn-
VAL-"1")isatn- VAL "ds

S# NEXT a

82 LPRINT

128 FOR i=({g- VAL "2")$ YAL "359") TO Cir- VAL "£") Y
AL "258") STEP VAL *359"

125 LPRINT CHR$ YAL "22":

13@ FOR k=((n- VAL "1")% VAL "7") TO VAL "25g"

146 LPRINT CHR$ PEEK ( VAL "Z4573"+k+j):

143 TF k=((mt VAL "7")- VAL "1") THEN LET k= VAL "259"

> POKE VAL "54456",z: LPRINT CHR$ YAL "13": POKE YA
L "6445é", VAL "1"

158 NEXT k

132 LPRINT

168 NEXT i

173 FOR a= YAL "1" TO {m-n+ VAL "1")

175 LPRINT TAB (1+(at VAL "7")~ LEN STR$ (atn- VAL "1
"))satn- VAL "1":

178 NEXT a

79 LPRINT CHR VAL "13"

18 POKE VAL "64456",z: LPRINT CHR$ VAL "19"

185 POKE VAL "464454", VAL "1°

$98 RETURN
296@ 60 70 USR ef
3848 60 SUB VAL "1286": PRINT AT YAL "om, VAL "2". "EN
TER 1: EXIT PROGRAM*’’ TAB VAL "9":*9 + Crepp WORKSHE
ET"’’ TAB VAL "9";"2 : RETURN TO VU-CALC*’? TAR VAL "9
"."4: PRINTOUT": INPUT "OPTION? "sa

PAPER LN PI
LOAD ** CODE : L

VAL "58" THEN LET r=

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VAL "i": TF m> VAL "SO" THEN LE

S013 IF a> VAL "@° AND af VAL "S" THEN 60 TO ¢ YAL "Zag
@"+at VAL "189") |

$208 CLEAR VAL “29327": DIM b$( VAL "{8"): DIM c#! YaL

"28"): 60 SUB VAL "1708"

5489 CLS : G0 SUB YAL "48": 60 70 YAL "Zaag* >

4ed@ 60 SUB VAL "1188": SAVE a$ CODE z2,/ PEEK bres YA
L "254"t PEEK (bfret VAL “{")-zz)s CLS : PRINT AT S.1:"
Rewind and Play Tape to Verify"’’’"GO TO 3888 on ERROR a
nd ResAVe": VERIFY.** CODE : CLS : 60 TO USR e2

Like the Tasman version, this program is also available
Via modem if you want to call.

Thanks for help on the AERCO version go to Jerry Chamkis
af AERCO and Jack Dohany for information on the earlier

versions of the AERCO printer driver software, Again,

please send any bugs to:

C.P. Morrissey (415) 952-5068 (Voice)
2000 Crystal Springs Road

Bldg 21, Apt 22

San Bruno, CA 94064

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by Jane Bird and Peter Kingston

TROUBLED Sinclair Research
has suffered a further blow with
the discovery that Timex, the
subcontractor which assembles
most of its computers, is selling
them abroad - and undercutting
it on price.

Timex believes that its
contract allows it to do this if
Sinclair falls behind with
payments. The Dundee-based
assembler and Sinclair's other
prime contractor, Thorn EMI,
ure together believed to be owed
cround £10m, though both have
avrecd to extend credit by two
months.

Timex has approached Zeta
Marketing of Manchester and
asked it to dispose of an initial
95,500 Spectrums overseas.
Zeta is offering these at a trade
price of £71, around £16 less
“nan Sinclair. The machine
rotails for £129.95.

Potential investors in Sinclair
are expected to demand the
introduction of some strong new
senior management. The com-
pany is already looking for a
chief executive so that Sir Clive
could step down from the post
and remain as chairman. But
troubleshooting chief executives
for troubled micro companies
are proving hard to find - Acorn
has been looking for several
months without success. One
obvious candidate, Robb Wil-
mot, has already joined forces
with Sinclair for an ambitious
chip project. The possibility
that he might accept a full-time
post has been denied by Wilmot,
who is chairman of ICL,
Britain's largest main-frame
computer maker.

Loading Tasword II on
the A & J Microdrive

Lsing the A & 2 Microdrive to

load Teswore II takes less than 30
seconds! But to SAVE the progran
requires
some modifications to the

and files createc by it

part of Tasword II.
To make the changes,

Opticon. DELETE lines 1l,
and 710. Now add the
lines:

LOAD Tas-
word off tape and choose the

following

BASIC

BASIC
1S, ; Oo

15 POKE VAL "23609", VAL "2": CLEAR
VAL *%33279": GO SUB VAL "4000":
LOAD "“@tasword"CODE: CLS: LET a=USR

VAL "59061": GO TO VAL "1C"

700 CLS: LET aS="@tasword”:

"@l,tasword"LINE 15

SAVE

710 SAVE "@2,tasword"CODE 54784,

10751

1060 IF a$(1)<>"@" THEN GO TO 1100

1070 LET a$(2 TO )=a$(4 TO )

These changes allow you to use
either cassette or microdrive for
saving files. Just remember to
regin files for the microdrives
vith @ and the number of the file
the file

Followed by a comma and

then select the “Save

with no other files on it.
To LOAD
"@tasword"™ RETURN.

Tasword, type

HOT BASIC no.1

Have you ever wished the [NKEYS function could be used to
check for a coabination of two keys depressed at once?

Take heart, there is anice way around this problee. The
SYSTEM VARIABLE called LAST K, located at 16421-16422, returns
a unique nuaeric value between 0 and 65555 for any key
pressed, and also for just about any suiti-key coabination!
Therefore, in a progra@, you Can use

PEEK 16421+256# PEEK 16422 instead of IRKEY$. A practical
exaaple aight be using this to get a “diagonal” result by
pressing two cursor keys at once.

This short listing will let you find values for different
cosbinations of keys, and see how the principle works.

{0 PRINT AT 5,0;°PRESS A KEY COMBINATION."
20 PRINT AT 9,53°CURRENT LAST-K VALUE"
30 LET K= PEEK 1642142568 PEEK 16422
40 PRINT AT 10,109" "3 AT 10,105 K
50 GOTO 30

ZX31 /TS51888
TIPS FROM
THE HAY / JUNE
i985 SINC-

LINK Nel OF
TCRONTO.

Note: In LINE 40, 5 spaces between the quotes. You can record
the values you get for use in your own prograas. Note that the
"current® value is shown ONLY while you have the key(s)
depressed.

HOT BASIC no.2Z

Here is another exaaple of How It Pays To Know Your Systee
Variables.

The infaaous 0 REM eachine code line can cause probleas if
it has had the two ‘"NEWLINE’ codes POKEd in to aake the
aachine code disappear froe the listing. You @ay find that
while you can LIST a different line nusber, if you ENTER a new
line, or do some EDITing, that 0 REM keeps popping up again
and again. Very distracting, isn’t it?

We can fix the problea by POKing the SYSTEM VARIABLE called
S TOP, at 16419. It holds the value of the top line iusber in
autosatic listings. To do it, first deteraine the line nauaber
of the first ‘noraal® BASIC line after the aachine code. For
our exaaple, let’s say this is line 5. Follow these steps:
LIST 9999 & ENTER
POKE 16419,5 & ENTER
LIST § & ENTER

Voila! So long as you don’t get careless. and enter *LIST®
without a line nuaber, the display listing will behave
nor@ally. :

This technique can be useful in regular BASIC prograsaing,
too. Can you see how?

M BASIC, LIST line 9992 anc EDIT. On
Aerco Interface with tue line two and three where it says
Spectrum Rom POKE 26704 and POKEC 2€703, cnange

parallel

to the mode.

- you')l

LOAD

-- Joe Williamson

If you nave converted your 206%
to a Spectrum and have the Aerco

are the changes neeced to run the
print driver software supplied with

name up to 7 characters long. Files the interface while in Spectrum
without the @ will save

cassette. (Example: @1,sample)
To SAVE Tasword to microdrive
after the above changes GC TO 1 and
| Tasword"
option. Save it on a 20° cartridge

First place your computer in
Spectrum mode and load in the Aerco are now set up to drive your.
print Criver software. when loaced,
break iato BASIC (don't initialize
it like Lhe proyram tells you tu ao
Crasnj). Once in

the 20704 to 23750 and chanye 26703
to 26749. Press FNTER. In the ine
mediate mode (no line numbers}
enter:

POKE 64441,201

POKE 64521,84

POKE 04522,31
Now run the projram with GOTO 1 and
choose the initialize routine. You

interface, here

printer while in Spectrum mode! Be
gure you save this new version.
--Joe Williamson

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LATEST VENDOR NEUS
FROM THE JUNE SUM Nvi OF
GAINSEVILLE, FLORIDA.

Tne ENGLISH MICRO CONNECTION has-~ an-
nounced the availability of a keyboard
overlay made expressly for the TS-2068 of
heavy white plastic. It can be marked on
and wiped off. Bob Dyl says it will be ex-
céllent for MrSeript; Gmni¢alc, or..any
other software with lots of commands. Cost
is $3.00 each postpaid from EMC, 15 Kil-
burn Court, Newport, RI 02840.

TS CONNECTION's Jack Roberts has in-
formed SUM that TS Connection did not buy
out Timex in Little Rock nor did they take
over Timex's service business. Word from
Little Rock is that they are still doing
repair work. Mr. Roberts says that TS Con-
nection does do out-of-warranty repair
service on the Timex computers. Prices are
supposed to be reasonable and turn-around
time quick. TS Connection, 3832 Watterson,
Cincinnati; OH 45227; -513=27 19570.

A new BBS service called TIMEyX‘iICHANGE
is now on line with up to the iinute news
for the Timex/Sinclair cowputerist. Any TS
colputer with a modem will be able to log
on to this service. Exchanging of messages
is also supported. Contact Ed Grey at P.O.
Box 2186, Inglewood, CA 99305; call 213/
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FROM THE RANTDOS N/L

IN CLEVELAND, GHIO.

The Computer Widows Corner

Here 18s a new column just for the
“computer widows” out there! This
article is From my wife Shirley.

Just a Few lines from ai computer
widow! You've heard of the "foot ball
widow” and the “base ball widows”, so iI
thought it was time that we were given
some recognition. When the computer
comes out there I sit listening to the
click click of the keys and the buzzing
of the printer. The articles that only
were going to take a short time usually
turn into hours, so I have my choics,
listening to these sounds or finding
something else to do. Usually I phone a
Friend or now that the weather is nice I
take a long walk. I thought that many of
yOu wives could relate to this, The
Widows of The Greater Cleveland Sinclair
Users Group. Let’s ban together you
widows and mn
Send your articles, receipes, jokes, or
whatever to: SHIRLEY R. DUPUY

651% Bradley Ave. Cc DOWN)
Parma, Qhio %*4%129
Phone: €216) 661-%10S

SPECIAL BONUS N/L EXCHANGE PAGE. 1145

MHTCRMN AND SPECTRUM

FROM THE AY REATOP NvL
IN CLEVELAND, GHIO.

At tast! Ncw you can use yoau
Spectrum ROM and MTERM Withaut
Crashing on exiting the MTERM
program. It’s €asy!

Because RANTOP has tO be
lLaweréed for MTERM to work with
the Spectrum, MSEke this Little
Loader pragram,

Write this one tine program.

18 CLEAR S3958: LOAD "" CODE:
RANDOMIZE USR 34016

SAVE it using SAVE "“MTERM"”
LINE 10.

LUAD the Ofginati version of-
MTERM code. Once toadéd, add the
Following POKES.

POKE S54554,287: POKE 54555,255

SAVE this versian on MTERM by
entering: SAVYE "“MTERM”’ CODE
U4¢016,7721. Save it on the
tape you saved the one line
Program on.

Now LOAD your customized ver-
si0m of MTERNM into your
Spectrum. The program will
autorun, §09 the loader program
Can be removed by erasing the
buffer.

New you can @xit From MTERM
Wrthout crashing. When you
exit MTERM, the menu will stitl
be an the screen, but a press
om the enter key witl get your

Listing.

ny

One word of caution. The
bufrer conmtrots wilt say that
YoU have BML21ll bytes in your
bufrer, but oniy about 3@188 is
usable. If you put more infror-
Mation than that in the buffer,
MTERM will crash.

Thanks to Thamas Simon and
Rick Conard far putting me on
the right track far this
rcutine.

David Hoshar

Receipes for Pinapple Oream Cake

Ingredients:
1- angel food cake
i- small pkg. of instant vanilla pudding
1- ©O oz can of crushed pinapple WITH

the juice!
1- med. size bowl of Cool Whip
First bake the angel food cake according
to the package instructions. remove it
From the mold, and spit it in half. Now
mix the above ingredients in a large
bowl and frost the cake just as you
would a regular cake. This is quick and
BOY IS IY GOOD! My husband likes it
better than a regular cakes!

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147

DEH HEHEHE EEE EH HE HH HHH

IN THE FIRST EXAMPLE, A SELECTED
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24 INPUT "PRESS ANY KEY AND EN
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GG FRINT AT @,@:Aa¢

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40 FOR ¥=@ To ?

7@ PRINT POINT (x%,Y)3

88 NEXT &¥: PRINT : NEXT ¥

94 GO To 14

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94 PRINT "AVERAGE".FN V(A,E,C,
D)

16@ PRINT "POUNDED AVERAGE",FN
D(FN V(A,B,C,D))

(CONT. NEXT PAGE)

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DE FE DE PE PE DE SE DE EE HE HEH HH

THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLE TRANSLATES
NORMAL CHARACTERS (WITH 8 BY 8
PIXELS) INTO CHARACTERS WHICH ARE
64 TIMES GREATER IN AREA.

1@ REM CHARS MAP DEMONSTRATION

26 INPUT AS: PRINT AS

38 LET MAP=(PEEK 23696+256%PEE
K 23687)+CODE AS¥S

49 FOR A= TO 7?

2G LET P=PEEK (MAP+A)

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1i¢@ GO TO 12

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75 DATA .25,7,.25,7,+25,7,99
89 DATA .25,4,.25,4, .25,4, 99
85 DATA .25,9,.25,9,-25,8,99
99. DATA «S;?7, .25;5;.5,4,.25,2;
1,8,99

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